How to eliminate Include Error Message?

myniche

I would be grateful if anyone could help. I am relatively new to PHP!

I want to know if anyone knows of a solution to eliminate the include error message if the include.php file is not found.

How can it be done? There must be a way!

Is it possible to code something like:

    lookup "include.php" file,.... if not there,... use this blank.php file?

If it is possible, could you show the coding on how to make it work .

Thanks!

Valdhor

if(file_exists("Path/To/Include/File"))
{
    include("Path/To/Include/File");
}

myniche

Valdhor, thanks for a quick reply! This forum gets my vote!

I asked this on 2 other php forums 2 days ago and still no answer.

Now, I just enclose all your code in the php attribute tags, or are there specific changes you use when showing code here?

Thanks again Valdhor!

Valdhor

Sorry, I don't understand your question - "Now, I just enclose all your code in the php attribute tags, or how are there specific changes you use when showing code here?"

myniche

if(file_exists("Path/To/Include/File"))
{
include("Path/To/Include/File");
}

I add the php open and close attribute tags as above? (What is the term for <? and ?> ? )

Valdhor

Oh. Yes, that is the shorthand notation. For some unknown reason, I like to use the full notation (<?php ?>).

None of the code would run if you didn't surround it with the php tags 😃

myniche

Thanks Valdhor..... I will be learning a lot here!

Weedpacket

Valdhor wrote:
For some unknown reason, I like to use the full notation (<?php ?>).

That's the preferred and recommended form. The short "<?" form is a leftover from the days before XML was invented and best practice says that new code shouldn't use it.

jim_keller

You may run into problems with the above solution if you're running on a host that has safe mode enabled. The reason being that even though you can specify allowed include paths for safe mode, file_exists() will still return false (and spit out a safe mode restriction error) if the file lives outside of your base directory. Another solution would be something like this:


$included = @include('/path/to/myfile');

if ( $included ) {
     //file was included
}
else {
    //file was not included
}

putting the @ symbol in front of a function will suppress any error messages that the function outputs.

I prefer the file_exists() method, but there have been cases where I've run into the safe mode problem I described above.

-Jim Keller
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